The world suddenly shook. Eight beams of light stretched across heaven and earth, devouring countless drops of blood and condensing them into strange symbols that steadied the vortex that had appeared between heaven and earth. The vortex generated an immense tearing force, creating rifts that appeared and vanished in an instant. No one knew where they led.
As countless powers flowed into them, the eight beams gradually dimmed. The heavenly gate seemed to stabilize, and the vortex began to turn more slowly.
The eight powers revolved endlessly in the air as countless fine threads were drawn out of the void. The threads intertwined and gathered into the shape of a compass. Many Mighty Cultivators watched in astonishment as it took shape. Those threads were actually the Mental Power of all living beings.
The faith of all living beings wound in circles around the Eight Spirits, arranging them according to the positions of the Eight Trigrams. The Eight Spirits transformed into eight symbols and gathered on the compass. The power of the eight elements spun rapidly across its surface, gradually merging and forming a pattern of the Five Elements, within which the power of the Five Elements circulated. Gengjin Essence suddenly appeared in the void and settled firmly into the compass.
Then another power was drawn out of the void by the compass. On closer inspection, it proved to be the power of laws—not the Heaven and Earth Law, but laws that the compass could evolve on its own. They included laws gradually formed by absorbing the thoughts of all living beings.
Three thousand threads of laws formed the shape of a compass and merged into it, fusing with the Mental Power of all living beings to form the compass itself. The Eight Spirits on the compass were suddenly forced out